In 1968 he graduated from the Vilnius 19th Secondary School (now Vladislav Sirokomlje), in 1973 he graduated from the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Education). From 1973 to 1980 he worked as a journalist for the daily Czerwony Sztandar. 1980-1988 Head of the Polish-language department of LRT, 1988-2002 Editor of the Polish-language programme Rozmowy Wileńskie. Publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Znad Wilii" (1989-2000), since 2000 of the magazine "Znad Wilii". In 1992 he co-founded the radio station of the same name. Since 1989 he has been a contributor to the Polish daily newspapers Rzeczpospolita and Nowy Dziennik, since 1990 to the Polish RTV, the Lithuanian newspaper Literatūra ir menas, and Severo Atėnai. From 1990 to 2000 he worked for the British television BBC. His work is included in more than seventy collections and anthologies, translated into English, Russian, French, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Czech, Arabic, published in Poland, USA, France. He himself translates from Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian.